Our goal is to create a beloved community and
this will require a qualitative change in our souls
as well as a quantitative change in our lives.
~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
'we are the Beloved Community' began in 2006 with organizations who had traditionally honored Dr. King on and around April 4th each year. This original group came together in an effort to not just work as individual groups and organization, but with the ideal of working together to support each other and to bring their events and opportunities to an even wider audience. The first joint events and activities were held during the week of March 29 - April 4, 2007. If you wish, you can see the 2007 Schedule of Events, the original partners and planning committee and the papers submitted for the Academic Symposium answering the question "Did the Beloved Community Die? Renewing the Dream."
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